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I use Swift.
I want to extract a character string surrounded by specific characters. What should I do?

Specifically,

"hogehoge 【xxx】 abcdefg"

I want to extract the part enclosed by [] ("xxx" in the above example) from a string such as

.

I would be happy if someone could give me advice.

swift ios
  • Answer # 1

    You can extract it using regular expressions.

    I have tried it myself, but I think this is good.

    let text = "hogehoge [xxx] abcdefg"
let nstext = text as NSString
if let regex = try? NSRegularExpression (pattern: "[(. *?)]"),
    let match = regex.firstMatch (in: text, options: [], range: NSRange (location: 0, length: nstext.length)) {
    print (nstext.substring (with: match.range (at: 1))) // xxx
}

    Because I've seen an article that doesn't work if I create an NSRange using String.count, I'm using NSString.length (this is a little tricky).

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